Commercial Freeware Support
This page features a growing set of (mostly free) Photoshop filters / plugins coded by myself. Most were developed because I found myself in need of something like this in the past for production. Others were developed because I foresee the need for them in the future. The remaining odd few were developed merely for the fun of it. They are not necessarily only limited to Adobe Photoshop and they work with many other graphic applications so long as they adhere to Adobe's plugin specifications. If you are unsure, click to see the compatibility list. To download a plugin, simply click the "Download" link or click on the image. Finally, please check back often as I intend to continually update this setion with more plugins.

If you are interested in having a custom plugin created, please let me know your requirements.

All of the plugins below are only supported by Windows, NOT Macintosh. Although I would like to support both platforms, the compiler I use to create the plugins is limited to the Windows platform.

If you wish to use these filters but do not have an application capable of running them, the following programs are free and compatible with them:

To download, simply click on the image or the "Download" link. Enjoy!



3D Sphere Generator
This filter will generate a 3D sphere and allow you to configure many of its properties.
Current Version v1.6


Color Bar Generator
This filter will create color bar templates for computer and television monitor calibration.
Current Version v1.5


Scanlines Generator
This filter will create those hard to produce scanlines on your image to simulate a monitor.
Current Version v2.2


Grid Generator
This filter will create fully customizable grids.
Current Version v1.6


Grain Generator
This filter will generate varying types of grain on your image.
Current Version v1.3


Diffuse Glow
This filter will generate diffuse glows.
Current Version v1.2


Spherical Mapping Corrector
This filter produces texture map correction for spherical texture mapping. Special thanks to Paul Bourke for allowing his algorithm to be ported to this plugin. For more information, please visit Mr. Bourke's site at Mr. Bourke's
Current Version v1.3


Lens Distortion Corrector
This filter produces texture map correction for spherical texture mapping. Special thanks to Paul Bourke for allowing his algorithm to be ported to this plugin. For more information, please visit Mr. Bourke's site at Mr. Bourke's
Current Version v1.1


Diffuse
This filter will generate varying types of diffusion effects on your image.
Current Version v1.3


Halftone
This filter will generate halftone patterns from an image.
Current Version v1.2


Pixelate
This filter will pixelate an image.
Current Version v1.3


Tiler
This filter will make an image tileable using edge bleeding and blending algorithms.
Current Version v1.3


Pinch
This filter produces pinch distortion on an image.
Current Version v1.2


Squarify
This filter produces squared distortion on an image.
Current Version v1.2


Evaluate
This filter performs various image processing operations through rule-based evaluations. 'Evaluate' can be an extremely powerful filter when used to its full potential. With it's sophisticated rule-based evaluations, it can perform more than 50 different image processing operations ranging from color replacement, color inversion, color swapping, greyscale conversion, color clamping, color multiplication and division, color trigonometrical mathematics, pixel blurring, pixel grain, and much, much more. Any of these effects can be applied to specific color ranges, specific luma ranges, specific color channels or any combination of any of these (and more). 'Evaluate' makes specific pixel targeting and isolation very easy to accomplish, providing the user with extremely precise image processing controls.
Current Version v1.1


Portable PixMap
This filter imports and exports Portable PixMap (PPM, PGM, PBM) images. The PPM / PGM / PBM file format is a convenient image file format which allows one to save an image in ASCII or BINARY mode. Because ASCII is simple text, it allows anyone to easily import these images into one's own applications. It also allows one to open the ASCII file in any text editor and make changes if desired. ASCII images are text based and therefore large and slow loading. BINARY images are smaller and faster loading but are not text based. Portable PixMap Importer/Exporter 2.0 now supports 16 bit RGB and Grayscale images.
Current Version v2.1


Superformula
This filter generates a wide variety of geometric shapes using the Superformula. The Superformula, sometimes referred to as the Supershape, was discovered by Johan Gielis. It is a simple formula that can be used to generate a wide variety of geometric shapes. Special thanks to Paul Bourke for allowing his algorithm to be ported to this plugin. For more information, please visit Mr. Bourke's site. Special thanks to Johan Gielis for his input and support. For more information, please visit Johan Gielis' site and here.
Current Version v1.1


Solid Border
This filter will generate a solid border around an image (in percentage or pixels) with options to respect image aspect ratios.
Current Version v1.2


Smart De-Interlacer
This filter performs various de-interlacing procedures with fully customizable convolution controllers.
Current Version v1.2


Ultimate Artist Aggravator
This plugin exists for the sole purpose of aggravating the artist.
Current Version v1.0


Lens FX
This filter will generate various distortion effects.
Current Version v1.0


Pixel Quantification
This filter calculates the sum of a selected number of pixels above a level threshold. It has been primarily developed for biological protein strand analysis although it is suitable for various other uses. Thanks to David Ng for conceptualization.
Current Version v1.1